Company directors, HR managers, and senior executives in public sector departments, received more bad news last week. Just when they would have been hoping they had seen the end...
Data
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Three and half years after appointing an interim National Data Commissioner to build-out federal data policy frameworks, the government has launched the first ever Australian Data Strategy. The strategy,...
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Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has not yet been briefed on the crypto currency data sharing ‘travel’ rule and the federal government has no intention of developing a technology...
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The failure of New South Wales’ digital voting system during the recent council elections, just days after the state government declared electronic voting would be “easy”, should be a...
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The pandemic and the emergence of new technologies has created “fertile ground” for Australian companies to innovate, according to Verizon Asia-Pacific vice-president Rob Le Busque. There is a growing...
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The federal government will unveil its first data strategy in the coming weeks, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying it would bring “tangible benefits” to all Australians. Addressing the...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has entered its third iteration, according to its newest boss, and will focus on data and cross-jurisdiction services after being stripped of its technology and...
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Australia’s privacy watchdog found no areas of high privacy risk in an assessment of the Big Four banks’ Consumer Data Right policies and practices but did identify at least...
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There are “serious concerns” over the Victorian government’s “unprecedented plan” to establish a centralised health data sharing system which would store information such as prescribed medications and hospital admissions,...
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The Prime Minister has applied a blow-torch to Big Tech at the G20 CEO Summit in Auckland, demanding the tech giants come up with industry codes of practice that...
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Australia’s corporate regulator will use consultancy giant Deloitte to manage its migration of key economic infrastructure over the next year in a move away from a local SME that...
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The recent determination by the privacy watchdog on facial recognition should be a warning for Australian governments and companies using the technology, with legislated protections urgently needed, former Human...
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The tax office will pay big four consultancy Deloitte more than $1 million per month over the next year to help it with agency-wide data and analytics, despite employing...
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Australia’s new data portability scheme could lead to “hyper-tailored” retirement income based on a person’s insurance, health and financial data, according to the minister leading the initiative. In a...